Re: Endurance cycle of NAND chip inside Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB

With regards to endurance, I am curious about the write cycle count if I began writing 10GB files to the drive until it filled up. We need to archive public meetings (audio/video) to the drive and never erase any files once they are written. Or to say it another way, if I have 24 sessions of plugging the drive in (stays turned off until needed) and writing 10GB per session, how many write cycles occur per NAND cell? I think the answer is 1, but I don't know how writes/erases happen for this memory type. Bottom line, reliability for reads from the device decades after files have been appended to the drive with no erase ever executed. Thanks!

Re: Endurance cycle of NAND chip inside Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB

For that sort of archival storage, you should be using appropriate technology (maybe tape drive or blue ray) and appropriate care to maintain the archive. (multiple backups, move data to new tapes/disk as old devices age)

It isn't something you can just "slap" on a drive and chuck into the corner and forget about in 20 years ... if you want to ensure at least some data isn't lost along the way.